Essar Oil

Essar Oil
Public limited company[1]
Industry Oil and gas
Headquarters Mumbai, India
Key people
 Ravi Ruia, Chairman
Lalit K Gupta, MD, CEO
Products Petroleum, fuels, natural gas and other petrochemicals
Revenue ₹983.53 billion (US$14 billion) (2014)[2]
₹21.55 billion (US$320 million) (2011)
Total assets ₹210.84 billion (US$3.1 billion) (2011)
Owner Essar Group
Parent Essar Energy plc[3]
Website www.essaroil.co.in

Essar Oil is an India-based company engaged in the exploration and production of oil and natural gas, refining of crude oil, and marketing of petroleum products. It is a part of the Essar Group based in Mumbai. It operates a major refinery in Vadinar, Gujarat, India, which made it the second largest non-state refiner in India in 2009.[4]

In July 2009, Essar acquired a 50% stake in Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd.[5] In July 2012, following Gujarat High Court's directions Gujarat Government seized three bank accounts of the company to recover its tax dues of Rs80 billion.[6]

It was a publicly traded company (NSE: ESSAROIL & BSE: 500134),until it was taken private in a leveraged buyout which closed on December 30, 2015.[7] It delisted the company valued at ₹380 billion (US$5.6 billion) by paying ₹37.45 billion (US$550 million).[8][9]

References

  1. ↑ "Essar Oil completes delisting in record Rs 3,745-cr payout". Essar Oil completes delisting in record Rs 3,745-cr payout. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "moneycontrol". moneycontrol. Retrieved 2015-02-05.
  3. ↑ Essar Oil Ltd subsidiary of Essar Energy plc [LSE: ESSR, the India-focused integrated energy]
  4. ↑ "Essar May Rise After Report That Shell May Acquire 10% Stake". Bloomberg. 23 November 2009.
  5. ↑ Sharma, Rakesh (3 November 2009). "Essar Oil CEO: Exclusive Talks With Shell to End Nov. 30". The Wall Street Journal.
  6. ↑ "Gujarat govt attaches Essar Oil's bank accounts to recover tax dues". The Times Of India. 9 July 2012.
  7. ↑ "Essar Oil completes largest delisting". Business Standard. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  8. ↑ "Essar Oil delists in Rs 3,745 cr payout". The Hindu. 31 December 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
  9. ↑ "Essar Oil completes delisting process with Rs 3,745-cr payout". The Indian Express. Retrieved 31 December 2015.


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